Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hell with the rest of the world. I want to be boss...
...style cabby who took him to his destination the long way round, or short-changed him, or passively watched as dear old Aunt Matilda wrestled with her steamer trunk. "That's the public for you," lamented a veteran cabby. "If all ten thousand of us went to hell, they wouldn't care. But I ask you: if there's a more efficient or courteous taxi service in the world, you name it. It takes New Yorkers to appreciate...
...idea was to get U.S. industry to invest in Puerto Rico, an attitude far removed from the usual reformer's hostility to foreign capital. Moscoso was frankly ready to try anything. "If something doesn't work," he said, "to hell with it." Potential mainland investors got invitations to Puerto Rico, promises of a free hand for free enterprise. The government chipped in by relaxing tax rules, training the workers, sometimes even constructing the factory buildings. By 1961, 680 plants employing 50,700 Puerto Ricans were established on the island...
...Hafner admired Widen's wings, the American gave them to him, and his Colt pistol and his P-38's identification tag as well. As they parted, Widen invited Hafner to visit him in Philadelphia after the war. It was a scene worthy of Richthofen himself, or Hell's Angels...
...adds that "if it comes, we ought to get the crumb." McManus' schools handle 34% of all Chicago schoolchildren, owe more than $40 million. They stay afloat by central-bank deals and an average annual tuition charge of $25 in grade schools and $225 in high schools. "Come hell or high water," says Msgr. McManus, "we're going to have 125 new classrooms next fall, no matter what they do in Washington...